CaseCircle2005

Gurley, AL, USA

Flurry of small bright flashing lights going east to west in random formation as if they were bees that were disturbed.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-19
Where
Gurley, AL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
33.776, -86.638 · exact
Slug
circle-over-gurley-al-2005-7c0433
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Gurley, AL shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 38 reports came from Alabama in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.